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TextWeight Tracks Your Weight Loss Progress, Bugs You Through SMS
- dmor 16y agoThis is the app that was launched on HN this morning after my husband stayed up all night coding, fastest turnaround to front page of TechCrunch I've ever seen. Nice job honey. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057706 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057706
- kevin_morrill 16y agoThanks dear :)
- tomjen3 16y agoAaaawww, true love.
- PStamatiou 16y agoI like it. Beats my iCal "diet" calendar. Brainstorming about how this can be used to track muscle gain for those with bioelectrical impedance scales. IE, you're gaining weight but body fat % stays the same, ∴ some amount of muscle gained.
- Guy1111 16y agoSharing privately with a trainer or nutritionist can be supplemently awesome. As well as getting tip of the day texted back based on the results. Well done.
- kevin_morrill 16y agoAll good ideas. We work with partners in academia to study exactly those kinds of things. This service is just a very simple example. It's surprising how just one question and raising your awareness can make a huge difference. We've seen this in a number of published studies.
- joshcrews 16y agoPublic graphs are movitational for me. I made similar personal app at http://fatgrapher.com http://fatgrapher.com and one of the key features for me is the that my graph is public. We used the principles: weigh/graph everyday, skip dinner whenever more than 1 pound behind the 'pace line'. The 'pace line' graphs ideal progress towards weight loss goal.
- auxbuss 16y agoQuestion: - US phone numbers only or other? Ideas: - Provide an interface via twitter, either personal msg or DM. - You could also provide an optional weekly public tweet of weights reported. Btw, I have twitter set to SMS me on receipt of a DM, which you could exploit to provide broader SMSs and save a few $s. Just sayin'. I really like the simplicity of the app.
- kevin_morrill 16y agoUS phone only, for now. Longer term, we're looking to understand better people's sensitivity around sharing weight. It's a tricky area. There are several studies in academia exploring this where we've partnered with investigators.
- kevin_morrill 16y agoSorry I misspoke. Canada works too.
- msys 16y agoVery nice. What service are you using to send the SMSs?
- kevin_morrill 16y agoTwilio
- ryane 16y ago$.02 / sms. Have you hashed out any monetization plans?
- zackattack 16y agoHis wife works at Twilio :)
- sleight42 16y agoWhile I applaud another honest attempt to help people lose weight, I am also skeptical that an app written in a single day managed to get TC'd the next. I feel doubly so when there are far more interesting apps in this space such as Lose It or Lose It (http://loseitorloseit.com http://loseitorloseit.com). FTR, I have no affiliation w/ LIOLI other than that I'm a user who finds it valuable and believe it more deserving of PR than this app.